Android: listen for Orientation change?

Question

How would I listen for orientation change in Android? and do certain things when the user has switched to landscape?

Answer 1

In your activity, you can override this method to listen to Orientation Change and implement your own code.

public void onConfigurationChanged (Configuration newConfig)

The Configuration Class has an int constant ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE and ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT, there for you can check the newConfig like this:

super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);

int orientation=newConfig.orientation;

switch(orientation) {

case Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE:

//to do something
 break;

case Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT:

//to do something
 break;

}